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  2. what's more, we are running out of cat litter..I'll ring the Vicar and ask about that lorry load that overturned a week ago' ..''Oh Johnny, yes, and ask for it free..every little helps..' ''Parson, it's me...' 'Oh..Disgusting, what a surprise..' 'Revolting..Johnny Revolting..' 'Old chap don't be rude..'' 'I want a half ton of cat litter free, you promised me last week..can you arrange..?'
  3. My first D.H. Lawrence. I hear it is his best. I found the opening chapter a bit of a slog, but I will see how it goes.
  4. KEV67

    Rob Roy

    Things worked out quite nicely for Francis Osbaldistone. Well I am glad. I don't like unhappy endings. If it's a choice between a great but unhappy ending, and a happy but not so great ending, I prefer the latter.
  5. What about using libraries, especially the digital libraries where you can download to a kindle.
  6. asked Rosie if there were any of my favourite jammie dodgers left. 'I can't be thinking of jammie dodgers at a time like this! Whatever's wrong with you, Johnny?? Daddy's obviously suffering from some sort of temporary mental lapse and he needs us!' 'That's all very well, but we've no idea where he is (I knew exactly where he was but had no intention of sharing that little piece of info) and ...
  7. Living in France helps as there are far fewer bookshops with less choice! When I visit the UK it's a different story though. I could literally barely lift my case for books last time and that was before I'd got airside at Gatwick and a look at the large airport only paperbacks!
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  9. Hello and welcome to the Forum!
  10. 'Oh didn't I say....? He took a walk along the Thames..saying he likes a good constitutional, this gent..if you see him, do send my regards, and whatever ails him, shall certainly pass. ' Hoping never to see him again, I poured myself strong tea and slurped it with gusto,and
  11. How do you do it? Every time I walk into a bookstore, I feel like buying everything at once!
  12. are you talking about! You're not making any sense and your words are all garbled. Have you been drinking or something? Oh no! You haven't been ...' 'Here give me the phone,' I said. 'Now Major, let me speak to the Fuzz.' 'Who's fuzzy? Are you calling me fuzzy, you impertinent whippersnapper? I'll have you know ...' I hung up on him. 'Oh dear, we seem to have been cut off. Never mind ... he'll ring back.' 'But where is he?' wailed Rosie.
  13. KEV67

    Rob Roy

    Sorry, I can't remember posting that. I might have had too much to drink. I finished Rob Roy. It was jolly good. I will have to read Ivanhoe some day, in part to see what the controversy is.
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